high stuff

New to urbex, but want to get in to rooftopping and climbing, but I'm not sure where to start. the closest I have got to even being on a rooftop was a local housing estate i wandered into, and climbed the stairs to the top. Unfortunately, the one time the door to the roof was unlocked, some...

January 2024 The Visit Following my successful visit to Forton Services back in November, I felt the time had come to have another crack at the beauty that is the Hilton Park Tower. Just as I had been doing with Forton, every time I passed the services I would pull in for a quick look at the...

November 2023 The Visit I visited this one with Mrs Gronk en route to the Lakes for a mini-getaway, for as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with the tower at Forton/ Lancaster Services, but who can honestly blame me? You can’t ignore the 20 metre tall tower dominating the...

19/05/23 Five Ways Tower in Birmingham is a 23 floor abandoned office building that closed down due to sick building syndrome in 2005. More information in my previous threads, this is a sort of update about the building. My past few visits to the tower have been filled with great effort...

(as of 16/04/23) Five Ways Tower is a 23 floor abandoned tower in Five Ways Birmingham. It was constructed in 1979 and was eventually abandoned in 2005 due to sick building syndrome. For a while, security has been on high for the tower, with our last visit having the entrance sealed up with...

For the Love of Cranes It’s become easy to look back at exploring over the years with rose-tinted glasses. Whether that’s reminiscing over epic long lost sites such as Pyestock, goons ruining favourite locations, or the more general sense of it’s just not the same anymore. In many cases, it’s...

Snow Hill 3, Birmingham - August 2019 Visited twice first with 2 non-members and then with @scrappy. Snow Hill 3 is the last of 3 glass towers sitting side by side to be constructed next to Snow Hill Station in Birmingham. This one is to house BT's new call centre amongst other smaller...

Five ways tower used to be an old office block in central Birmingham, by the five ways round about. The 23 storey building was completed in 1979 however it was abandoned when a large amount of the workers kept on falling ill. Known as sick building syndrome this is caused by poor ventilation and...

North Tower (formerly Highland House) is a high-rise residential building on Victoria Bridge Street in Salford, England. The building is 23 stories tall with a podium at the base, which gives it a total height of 80 metres (260 ft) making it one of the tallest buildings in Salford. The building...

another boring night so another mission, this time it was nice to view the city from a more central point of view looking down at the principal clock tower which you don't get to do often. oxford road station from above looking over towards central library the view towards...

Manchester is throwing buildings up at the minute, and it shows no sign of slowing down. i was bored so decided to have a little climb and the views didn't disappoint! looking towards the town hall views over towards the universities hulme from above owen street towers thanks for...

This is a site StealthyOne and myself have been wanting to explore for years. The time seemed right a couple of months back, and I figured it's about time to post the pics up. I'll include some links to more detailed info on the site. The Wilton park estate once belonged to the monks of Burnham...

Saw this a few days ago from @Thatsnotme91 's post on the high stuff forum decided to send tower solo and mission success #confetti #yay sent for sunset around 7pm climb up was painful climb down too :banghead I know as far as the previous post did, All pictures are taken on my iphone 6s Im...

my SECOND report plz don't rinse me Its a block of buildings for students at the university of essex in Colchester. they total 1142 rooms and one of them the one we climbed is under refurbishment was with a friend COOL explore. was up there for a few hours. sunny day we just out there tanning...

My first REPORT plz don't rinse me this is a standard residential area which had scaffolding up one of the sides at the time. Frinton is a town 30 minutes away from colchester and popular seaside attraction in the summer. It's the tallest building in Frinton town and overlooks the seaside as...